According to the report, lawmakers did pressure the communications company to drop its plans to offer Huawei's devices to customers. AT&T is also being urged by Senators and House members to put an end to its collaboration with the Chinese manufacturer on standards for its 5G network.

The report claims that companies are being told that doing business with Huawei, China Mobile and other Chinese companies could reduce the chances of procuring government contracts. "The next wave of wireless communication has enormous economic and national security implications," said Michael Wessel of a US-Chain security review commission. "China's participation in setting the standards and selling the equipment raises many national security issues that demand strict and prompt attention."

According to US intelligence information, Huawei has shared sensitive information with the Chinese government

In addition, Congress has proposed a bill that would prevent any government agencies from working with the Chinese company. The proposal says that, according to US intelligence information, Huawei has shared sensitive information with the Chinese government, and that Chinese security agencies can make use of Huawei equipment to spy on US businesses.

As one would expect, Huawei insists that its technology does not come with any built-in tools for access to US communications infrastructure. The company also told Reuters that its equipment is used by 45 of the world's top 50 carriers, for all of whom security is a priority.

The good news is that If you are based in the US and did like the Mate 10 Pro's camera performance in our full review, you'll still be able to purchase the device, just not through a carrier. Instead you can buy the unlocked version on Amazon, Best Buy and other retailers.

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China is only few communist countries left aside with North Korea, Cuba, also they have been reaching out by "employing an army of commenters widely known as the 50-cent party. offering a stipend of 600 yuan, or about $72....researchers from Harvard, Stanford and the University of California-San Diego estimated that these paid commenters generated 448 million social-media comments annually. The posts, researchers found, were conflict averse, cheerleading for the party rather than defending it. Their aim seemed not to be engaging in argument but rather distracting the public and redirecting attention from sensitive issues..."

Too damn paranoid is what I feel. The govt needs to stay out of cell phones and carrier companies and worry about what's going on inside the WH instead. It's all about control. Always has and always will.

Someone needs to remind these useless members of the congress that China has had spies at the CIA, various government agencies, the most prestigious and most secretive labs, at jet fighters manufacturers, at aircraft carriers engineering, at ...., and easily get all what they want on a thumb drive.This has been on the news many times for many years. The idiots think this will protect national security???The biggest national security threat is our 4th-grader mentality average voters who vote to put useless b a s t a r d s in the highest government offices.

I had smartphones from Samsung, Sony, Huawei and now a Pixel. More political incorrectness doesn't exist. But if i had to take sides, I'm afraid the Pixel would need dropping...all that US govt, FBI, CIA, NSA etc control on this planet would drive me crazy

US officials and politicos became so scared of supposed Russian meddling in their bumholes that they started to behave even more moronic than their Russian counterparts when it comes to regressive bans. Just in case, Russian villagers twitch their noses about “not too broad-band“ 20 Mbit FTTH link (in big cities it's like 100 Mbps for 9...15 US$/month unlimited and without outages... I pay 11 in Moscow, public static IPv4 included), while the US farmers and not only farmers often still have 5 Mbps as the only option. This way the US will lag behind the communications frontier once again (as it did when Graflex management preferred not to notice Japanese camera makers in 1950s and 1960s... which led to actual death of once world's leading US camera production by 1973). Simple as it is: they ban Huawei, they'll get ZTE. Wanna ban ZTE too? Will get TCT disguised as Alcatel-Lucent.I could compare it to NTSC, but NTSC was the frontier, yet the US stuck with it and dragged Japan along.

I have 3.5 Mbit down and 1 Mbit up in south Florida for $40 per month. Rip-off? Yes . . . but faster speeds cost more, and I seem to have no significant problems watching videos/movies on YouTube, Amazon Prime, and Netflix.

@Scottely yes, you have no problems, I guess, because you probably watch your videos in 720p or less, and YouTube has adaptive bitrates as well. By currents rest of the world standards that's an utter ripoff. In Slovenia, for example, you get 30 Mbps DSL for the same price and that's quite substandard, if anything. Your access is comparable to the rates in Norilsk in Northwestern Siberia (permafrost, horrendous climate and extremely dreadful ecology) until the Norilsk Nickel company spent over 40 million dollars to get a multi-gigabit fiber optic link there (over bogs, tundra and permafrost) that couple of months ago reached general public of that city. There are still places in Russia, Africa, South America and even Europe where the best you can count on is a satellite connection, and in Australia the laments about the internet speed are now the part of national character, but well... I had better speeds via VSAT link on a moving ship amidst a Force Eight storm in the Sea of Japan.

Yes, America has bad infrastructure, high prices, racist people, insane government, etc. etc. And apparently that's why there are millions trying to get in here legally and illegally, and demanding amnesty. It should be only humane to send them all back to their wonderful countries with cheap and fast internet and their wonderful cultures.

Father Bouvier: What is your motivation for trying to shift focus from subpar internet service at high prices? Why would you be motivated to excuse that? When consumers are getting ripped off like that, someone is profiting immensely from it. Why are you on their side? Or are you just an actor trying to portray a dimwitted American hick?

Not half. Just 161 persons, of them 102 Serbs and 3 Montenegrins. One Serb was a fiction (Gruban Malić) and thus delisted in 1998. 37 (including 16 Serbs) were cleared of all charges, 20 died before or during the trial (including suicides). Of 104 sentenced, 39 were not Serbs, 33 are already released, 6 died or committed suicide in jail.Balkans is just that kind place: give people a little push there and they'll cut each other's throats over some obsolete crap like religion (Serbs are Orthodox Christians, Croatians are Catholics, Bosnians and Kosovars are Sunni Muslim). So in those wars there were no winners: everyone lost, everyone were aggressors, everyone were victims. Each Srebrenica had its Mostar to counter.

By the way, the Hague Tribunal was disbanded on December 21st, 2017. Now there is UNMICT that is focused on Rwanda. When Slobodan Praljak (by the way, he was a theater, TV and movie director before the war) drank his poison, the Hague court lost its purpose.

Yeah, thanks for reminding me about that, I forgot to enlist a silent invasions, setting up government's in foreign lands, setting up and financing wars and riots and disbanding great united countries for easier control of region just to put them all on trials run by guess who again...

Tom Lehrer, a mathematician from Harvard, wrote this satirical song in 1965. At one of his concerts, he introduced it like that:With President Johnson practicing escalatio on the Vietnamese, and then the Dominican crisis on top of that, it has been a nervous year, and people have begun to feel like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis. Fortunately, in times of crisis like this, America always has its number one instrument of diplomacy to fall back on. Here's a song about it:

When someone makes a moveOf which we don't approveWho is it that always intervenes?U.N. and O.A.S.,They have their place, I guessBut first send the Marines!

We'll send them all we've gotJohn Wayne and Randolph ScottRemember those exciting fighting scenes?To the shores of TripoliBut not to MississippoliWhat do we do? we send the Marines!For might makes rightAnd till they've seen the lightThey've got to be protectedAll their rights respected'till somebody we like can be elected!(continued below)

(beginning above)Members of the corpsAll hate the thought of warThey'd rather kill them off by peaceful meansStop calling it aggressionOoh, we hate that expression!

We only want the world to knowThat we support the status quoThey love us everywhere we goSo when in doubtSend the Marines!

What actually really annoys me, as a Russian citizen and very much a pacifist, is that Russia recently started to behave exactly like that. I actually like Tom Clancy's books, but I prefer them to be a fiction rather than a documentary or even a mockumentary, and in whatever sense “pride” (it has slightly different connotation in Russian than in English) is used, I don't feel it. Yes, IS must be destroyed completely, but, well, any military heroics is impossible without someone being a bad guy. Peace! P.S. I like pleskavica as much as I like burgers, shawarma and döner.

@Suave no way. I'm quite critical to whatever government that exercises military force, including the government of a country that I, by chance, was born in and is a citizen of. I'm quite skeptical about Crimea (although for me that place ceased to exist 20 years before, last time I was there in 1993 and just don't want to spoil my childhood memories), nor did I support Georgian tryst of 2008. I had high chances to be conscripted during the second Chechen campaign (so that was one of the reasons I ditched military service) and my early childhood in the 1980s passed with rumors about Afghanistan campaign in background, although it was started by different govt of a different state for a different reason (although, being born in 1981, I was too little to be concerned about that). One thing I'm not used to, is overt foreign operations, although, giving some credit, post-1991 Russian (i.e. not Soviet) authorities always try to obey some sort of decorum. (continued below)

@Suave (beginning above) One thing that present-day Russia did twice and, according to my sources, is not to repeat, is unprovoked intervention. Ok, Georgia and Crimea were very questionable and may be considered unprovoked, but there are and were no Russian armed troops in the East of Ukraine. I have confirmed information that there are much less than 500 military consultants from Russia in Donetsk and Luhansk combined, but they are unarmed. What other Russian citizens do their on their own accord is different matter, but they do it without any official endorsement and, frankly speaking, Russian government is quite unhappy with them (I did some involuntary eavesdropping during some talks...). As for Syria, that was an official request from the government that Russia and the UN recognize, and, however your feel about Bashar Assad, he a legitimate president. I consider Syrian operation a weapons test rather than anything else, but whatever it was, it was passably efficient (contd ↓)

@Suave For what it worth, I'd prefer Russia to keep its soldiers inside its borders, as well as I'd like the US (it did so between 1832­­ and 1898), China (well, there is an interesting law there that bans any Chinese citizen, even a military, to possess weapons when abroad... so Chinese military in Africa are just like any other guys, if better trained), EU and whoever else to do the same, but devil is in details, and that details show that economical, political and certain private monetary interests are intertwined so tightly that in most cases you can easily answer the famous Latin question “Qui prodest?“ (“who gains a profit?”). A piece of history: when India was colonized, it was done by an absolutely commercial organization: the British East India Company. Opium wars in China is them to blame as well. They had royal permission, but they were always private, commercial and not endorsed by the crown. Russia these days dances the tune of military mfg-ing. The US are about the oil.↓

@Suave The question why Russia is a slave of its military production complex is easy to answer: it is the Soviet heritage, there are a lot of know-hows and expertise there and, well, these factories and companies (most of them, contrary to the USA, are state-owned and not private, except the smallest that do not develop actual weapons) employ too many people to get a social havoc if they are fired. That partially happened in the 1990s, and that decade is currently a scarecrow. Yet, I can't help but wonder why the US have a (largely self-proclaimed) right to do so and so, and Russia, China, India, Brazil, Nigeria, France etc. don't. Ok, democracy is fine, but I don't fancy a democracy where I can be shot because a police officer had a slight suspicion that I'm a personal threat to him/her, or have a similar option with a “proud citizen”. I'd rather prefer more stringent regime where I can walk the streets safely, even if the 1st Amendment is a perk hard to refuse for a journalist.

@Suave Quite expected one, yet have no answer for it. I just have to provide you with some pieces of information to let you decide for yourself, with a caveat that I don't think it was Russian army (nor any authorities do), for it would be utter insanity for Russia to walk the rakes of 1983, let alone in someone's else airspace.1) The insurgents thought that there was some UAF An-26 and Su-25 flying in the area and they proudly tweeted about “hitting a bandero-fascist plane”. When it became evident that what fell is no way an An-26 nor Su-25, they promptly removed the tweet.2) The insurgents had and have no aviation, nor, as a too many people claim, missiles capable of that. 3) I have some accounts both from insurgents, Ukrainians and local civilians that at the time of the hit UAF and insurgents changed positions a lot, and one guy who has no reason to hide the truth from me, said that it was like 30 minutes difference, and the insurgents definitely had no “Buk” there and then↓

↑ 4) Ukrainians behaved really weirdly when it became known that it was the MH17 and not anything else down, but there is no doubt that they had any military plane capable of damaging a civilian scheduled widebody in normal flight. Still they had and have “Buk” missiles that at the Soviet times and later were and are produced both in Russia and Ukraine, they had launchers in the area and they could have launch it for whatever reason, but hitting any civilian flight was absolutely not on their agenda, for it would be a political suicide for them. For Russia as well.5) One AP photographer whom I know and who happens to be an astrophysicist with some knowledge of ballistics by education, spent about two weeks around the crash site immediately after, he scrutinized the debris and holes in it. He tends to think that it was not insurgents, nor Russian military, which leaves the UAF or someone else.6) The US military did not disclose their data completely, in case they really have any.↓

7) The Bellingcat team has and presents only what can be considered circumstantial evidence. Russian military gave its account but knowing more than I'd like to know about Russian army, I can't believe them completely too. Current Ukrainian government, and, especially, people who were in power at the moment, are not the nicest persons in private, nor they are wise politicians, nor great military commanders. In fact they, as well as insurgents and many Russian politicians, are greedy corrupted sh*t no less, if not more, than the previous Ukrainian government was. Nor the EU and the US people in the field are. In fact, your question would be answered if you can answer (again!) the question “Qui prodest?”. The thing is, that in this case there were no one in profit. Neither Russia, nor Ukraine, nor insurgents... and definitely not Malaysians, Dutch, Aussies or whoever else. I'm not into conspiracy theories, nor I support any party in the Ukrainian conflict... nor any Russian politicians.

↑ P.S. I do not, again DO NOT think, even for a split second, that it was the US, the EU or some Middle Eastern guys. It's painful for me to think that it was Ukrainians (I didn't cut ties with my friends there from all the parts of the country, and don't want to, nor want they, because it's not our war; I'm fluent in Ukrainian, JFYI) and shameful (if I'm to feel anyhow about Russian govt) that it was Russia.

If you still want to hear my very shaky opinion (SHAKY - OPINION) based only on something that I can't call firm facts by any stretch of imagination, I'm inclined to a thought that it was a MISCALCULATED launch of presumably FAULTY missile by Ukrainian army, or similarly, by the insurgents (even if everything I know shows it weren't them), Whoever did it, is probably long (or not so long) dead because of whatever. I doubt that I — or you, for that matter — will live to see and hear the hard evidence and firm facts, if any hard evidence is not destroyed already by whoever did it.

@Suave correction to 4): No doubt that Ukrainians DID NOT have any military plane capable, at least in the area and at the moment. Su-25 can't go higher than 7 kilometers (nor its own armament can), MH17 was much higher

I am afraid that the things have progressed quite a bit past the stage where we had the amateurs from Bellingcat collecting the evidence.

I imagine that it's incredibly painful to comprehend, but there's overwhelming evidence that MH17 was shot down by the Russian missile, from the Russian launcher, by the Russian military personnel. And as much as you want to believe otherwise every bit of human suffereing was planned, organized, perpetrated and paid for by Russia.

@Suave I don't have that evidence. At least, Russia had no valid (nor crazy) reason to do it and it was as much of a shock for everyone (I mean EVERYONE) here. It definitely wasn't done from Russian territory, and I can believe it only when I see the hard proof myself. I decided that long ago for myself. Anyway, if Russian army does that, it has no excuse and it deeply insults me as a holder of Russian passport.

Anyway, Russian authorities and Russian people are a bit different. At least as much as D.C. and the rest of the US are.

the idea that preventing this phone from the us reduces spying is absurd .... we are surveilled up the wazoo by every technological structure available to our government

apple microsoft google android, police cameras everywhere . they all spy ... its just how things are. but leave it to our managers to give us another foreign enemy in the form of a phone to distract us from the domestic ones ... it used to be the russians. now its the Chinese with dji huawei

the real reason it to make it harder on china to send home data gleaned from intense cyber attacks like Aurora in 2009, thought to be tasked with stealing source code across a wide spectrum of american companies.

cyber warfare to advance a technical edge is at the forefront of activities from china and russia. we do exactly comparable stuff backnaming a single brand like this? i dont get it, unless they have already caught something but are not turning over the card just yet

as it comes from Congress and the American political establishment it surely is more lies than truth ... hence my independent musings

i read every single word .. i even occasionally click on the ads

once i can read specifically about spyware from huawai that is specified beyond these vague and unspecific acusations

like the attack on the maine in havana harbor[ false flag] so we could war with spain and our subsequent killing of 200 000 filipinos

and the gulf of tokin attack in vietnam which never happened swo we could attack vietnam and murder millions of innocents or the fabricated nonsense about weapons of mass distruction in iraqso we could carry out 2 illegal wars and murder millions of innocents

i would prefer a concrete proveable evidance of huawai spyware not some more lies vomited forth by creepy congressmen

No, Its sounds like a very smart Govt. The Chinese have and will do everything possible to steal and subvert this country. They bet on the pacifist fools that think China is honest. China dominates virtually all industries only because this country was dumb enough to have a one sided trade agreement with them. Additionally, people here who could have made a statement years ago by buying American decided to go Chinese save a few dollars. The Chinese meanwhile thank the fools which have given them power beyond measure in the span of less than 30 years. Wake up America!

Anybody who's not scared of the Chinese is simply naive. They are coming to own it ALL. and are making massive strides. The most terrifying videos I've seen are all Chinese. People think Black Friday in USA makes "us" look bad... My God. https://youtu.be/XCjOrkcEvs4 . Even in the worst, most ghetto cracked out hoods in the US you wouldn't see anything near this terrifying puke of humanity.

In the meantime with all the talk of undemocratic China and the democratic USA, then how the heck did the US invade Iraq illegally and destroyed a country and its people, then led the rise of ISIL? What kind of democracy is that? Some in the US are truly brainwashed and not seeing the facts out there. Sad! In the meantime, the real reason is likely to be the economic competition with Apple’s iPhone than some network hack.

The US market remains anemic in terms of smartphone choices. 20-30 percent of top-tier models are not even being launched in the US and are launched only in Asia and Europe. Setting aside Huawei, I am talking LG, Samsung, HTC, Asus, etc. As to why more limited models are being released to the US market, I think it has something to do with vendor subsidies which do not really work to the advantage of the customer.

It's somewhat anemic because people are so used to carrier-subsidized phones. Now that those are pretty much gone (no more $0 Samsungs with new contract on Black Friday) people will slowly adjust. But you can go to Best Buy and find a reasonably broad selection of unlocked phones.

in the new york area im seeing lots of free phone television ads for free apple phones .... i wonder if sales have dropped off a cliff since the headphone jack murder . and revelations about batteries being unable to adequately performafter just 2 years

In Russia, China and the EU a lot of people buy never-locked phones for $200 to 1000, mostly without any binding plans and credit, although many do it with credit cards. Actually, a 1- or 2-year contract that includes an expensive device and not too fancy a plan is really specific for the US only. In the EU you have both options. In Russia it traditionally is “phone separately, plan separately”, and the majority of Russians, as well as a lot of Europeans, use PAYG-type plans. Of course, many recent Apple and Samsung models aren't paid in full instantly, but there is a huge used market as well. So when a new iPhone is out, a previous one is done for a certain kind of people. A lot of people have dual-SIM phones. Since about 2 years ago we have the real MNP, so it takes 8 days to switch carrier while keeping your number. I have a post-paid plan, but it isn't much different from a pre-paid... just my calls and data don't end abruptly. $11...14/month, I keep well within the plan limits.

Don't know much about African countries and India in that regard, though, but from what I know, a cheap 3G/4G smartphone in India, Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria or Kenya is nothing special even among those who have trouble accessing decent potable water and live in something like a cardboard box. In China in the last several years cash became next to obsolete: in-app payments with QR codes, and since Chinese make the majority of smartphones, rest assured that even a very poor person can get legally a functional smartphone this or that way. Cyberpunk is here, deal with it ;) Not like Gibson/Sterling kind of cyberpunk (although vocaloids are almost like an IDORU), because biotech isn't that developed yet, but, well, a still capable old model costs next to nothing. In Mongolia, for example, people may live in traditional yurt, have no running water, no sewers and no powerlines, but a wind or solar generator, a battery backup, a TV with some kind of player... and a smartphones or a tablet.

This is so hilarious! What effectively the US Congress has disclosed is that the NSA has for years tapped into everyone’s networks whilst Cisco powered the Internet. Ironically there’s no law that prevents US govt agencies and related entities from spying outside the US. Now the US does not like having the table turned on itself. Hypocrites!

I UNEQUIVOCALLY agree with the US Congress and its patriotic measures.I, who since 2003 no longer eat FRENCH fries, but PATRIOT fries.I am OK with our government spying on us, and to pay for it every month. But to let the door open for the Chinese to spy on us?Where the hell is this country going to...??

I heard that they were ramping up production like crazy to meet the expected demand from the AT&T contract. Does this now mean that it'll be bargain bin flagship within 2 months? If so, still a win to purchase unlocked.

i always buy unlocked cellphones at b and h ... as long as they dont cripple it by removing easy to implement features like the headphone jack and memory slots lots of great choices .. often heavily discounted

i never understood paying 800 -1200 for a cellphone, its absurd even vaporware holographic display ones .....lol

Why are you "OK with our government spying on us" patriotic sir? Don't you realize that those who would give up liberty and freedom (from our government spying on us and involving itself in every facet of our lives) for a little temporary security deserve neither freedom nor security?

Dear Scottelly, I guess Cosinaphile got the right end of my words. I was just being cynical about the whole matter. Liberty and freedom are just relative concepts when we all give up our civil rights in the name of technology. I'll kindly suggest for you to read some of the works from Marshall McLuhan and if possible, try to get a hold of Amusing Ourselves To Death, from Neil Postman. Cheers!

@MGJA You're lucky as, seemingly, you do not attend Russian forums. Every third thread there eventually turns into mutual political bashing unless that is prevented by moderation or members self-restraint. Even if it is a porn-themed LGBT furry Telegram channel where the general subject are fictional genitalia of imaginary anthropomorphic animals (even though LGBT furries are, probably, the most tolerant and apolitical people imaginable). That's why a lot of Russians who know English and are not interested in politics prefer to avoid Russian-language online communities.

what are the cameras lgbt furries prefer shooting with .. for god sake tell me

also i must know what are the most popular lenses when shooting "blue" furrie movies are they grading the video .... i must know

i uses to see one of my clients kids and his girlfriend walk around in furrie costumes of giant pandas ... it was surreal ..and i thought at the time something done for humor and irony .... years later in his late 20s he told me what they were ACTUALLY up to in those costumes, years earlier...

@cosinaphile (one point for sarcasm) They usually don't photograph, and those who do, don't use pink Pentax bodies and Hello Kitty instax stuff, if anything, nor are into lomography. Smartphones, Canon, Nikon, Sony — in that order. Giant pandas, though, aren't really popular species, nor lewd, as far as I'm familiar with that subculture. Foxes and wolves, on the other hand, are. A certain annual event in Gdansk, Poland, for example, may cause a series of strokes among homophobes.

every time you buy an iPhone. an iPad . an apple laptop ... even a floppy evil little dongle, you are supporting "communist " [ err capitalist? ] China ...ok?

100s and 100s of billions of dollars .. from the manufacturing belts of China monies channeled into many Chinese activities from rice farming to the creation of ICBMs, to preschools and bicycle manufacturing . for curious " American patriots " who thinks this has any bearing or meaning in the strategic skullduggeries between the superpowers ...?

it does not ...significantly, it only serves the transfer of wealth from the peasants of 2 nations to the elites of 2 nations

Because we still buy America even though the country starts illegal wars and implement regime changes around the world, implementing fake news to assassinations. Hey, sounded far worse than the worst of communism.

love it!It goes well with what Russel Brand (crazy to the bones nut smart whatsoever) wrote in his book "Revolution":God, grant me the serenity, To accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference.

Observing this from Norway, Europe, a thought comes to one's mind: Can this 'initiative' possibly have its origin in a certain mind in a certain house in a certain capital? Thinking of a certain nations intelligence services, having this strange habit of tapping the phones of European heads of state?And the expression 'big charade, the biggest' also comes to ones mind ... and: 'The age of lying'.Disgraceful.

I hope you don't mean to imply this is normal. The idea a govt pressuring companies into not buying hardware from a specific country is a glimpse of the usual goings on and doing so would not make headlines is wide of the mark.

It is telltale that in Europe things got heated once heads of state noted they themselves enjoyed the scrutiny they themselves want to impose on us. Quite amusing how our free media with their critical minds followed the eact sentiment our politicians layed out for them...The problem is not scrutiny of our heads of state which were not the main target, the main target were companies. What the USA (Obama, mind you) did and does is simply coprorate espionage in order to give American companies a better position to negoatiate agreement and things alike. To make them more competitive.

olav a very good analysis... the structures of power create any news they wish ... and the yellow journalist and cia controlled media dutifully report it

the first second and third world is are pretty much exactly the same

some tell the truth a little more , and some lie a little more ,but the essential brainwashing and citizen indoctrination is loosely the same everywhere . with some particularly stupid citizens accepting virtually every bit of nonsense they were fed ... and some citizen mostly understanding what was propaganda [ final days of USSR ] since then the russian citizens have become near as gullible as the average north american .... well almost ...

This is not fear mongering. After a year in China my Samsung phone had problems accessing certain sites, and that was back home, outside of the firewall. It installed code on my phone that stayed there for a long time. Now imagine a phone built in China, for the Chinese market. You DO NOT want to buy that phone. Don't even bring your western phone if you go on vacation there. Even better, don't even go there. Most landmarks are covered in smog anyway, so nothing to see, I've been there.

I think you missed the memo where you're supposed to bash the United States, Donald Trump and Western Hypocrisy, play what-about-ism, and pretend the Chinese government isn't undemocratic and doesn't suppress civil liberties.

Actually Walt it is nothing but fear mongering. I live in Australia, have chinese phone for years and never had any problems whatsoever. I also have been to China on several occasions and it is beautiful country full of history (unlike Australia or USA ) Only intellectually deficient person could believe your comment, but hey judging by the comments threads you will have your audience here. Cheers mate.

No. You do not want to buy a Chinese phone with Chinese specs. It will not run as you'd want it to in the West. The Xiaomi I bought in France works like a charm. Having seen the Huawei tablet line-up in Guangzhou it is pretty sure that there will be a surge in Android sales when they hit the market, wherever that may happen. The value is correct.Western companies are taking advantage of our ignorance, suspicion and sheer stupidity while they still can. The wave from the New China will hit them hard.

"The proposal says that, according to US intelligence information, Huawei has shared sensitive information with the Chinese government, and that Chinese security agencies can make use of Huawei equipment to spy on US businesses."

not supporting the US government on this one, but the difference is that the iPhone's hardware is build in china but it is under strict specs and inspection from Apple (meaning that they just can't add some additional spy chips), and even more important *all* the software is developed by Apple. On the Chinese companies they have their own customized Android.

Also "maybe" the US government don't want too many to switch to equipment that don't have their own back-doors :)

Is it beyond the capabilities of the US Intelligence serves to spot Huawei or anyone else inserted "some additional spy chips" into a mass produced phone? Looks like it given this scatter gun ban 'em all approach.

These things use standard processors , graphics chips and memory. There is little scope to modify the hardware configuration and most of them use Android.

It would be monumentally stupid of the Chinese to try and install a hack on every phone Huawei produced. It would be spotted.

Hardware wise, yet it would be spotted easily - kind of that was my point with apple being made in china, but i probably failed to phrase it correctly.

Software wise, yes it will be spotted, eventually. But since there is no access to the company-specific code, a complicated backdoor (unlike some active app that sends data) can stay undetected for years. But as i said, i would think mostly the fact they can't ask a Chinese manufacturer to implement a backdoor for them, might be a more important issue. :)

Also, on the positive side - If you offer a substantial government contract to a company, by forcing them to use US companies for hardware, software, work, etc, You ensure that part of the money stay in US - taxes for the company's profit, salaries for employees (for example a US company with a lot of workforce in China, still have lots of employees in US), and probably other aspects. And the fact that you don't expose yourself to a "hacking" risk, is a good bonus.

LOL, while Apple doesn't have much underpaid designers in US, Huawei has many in China. You can try figure out how many of their engineers suicided or died from overwork in recent years. Yet their pay is good in Chinese market so young people keep coming. Once they turned 30 and cannot overwork, they get laid off without much compensation. Well, Huawei at least still pays compensation. Other big names from China doesn't pay at all.

Ergo607: nearly everything you said is a lie. Workers are paid market wage, and their suicide rate is _lower_ than that in the country overall. And Apple treats the remaining issues as a problem, even though it's not their workers.

No. They could start making phones here in the U.S. I've seen simple glass products at Wal-Mart that are made here in the U.S. If we can make those, batteries, and electric cars here profitably, then I'm sure we can make high-end phones here too.

I agree, but it won’t happen overnight. There are hundreds of millions of phones made every year. Not only does this require a lot of machinery, crucially it also requires a lot of qualified workers, which we don’t have, because in this country vocational training was not in demand for the past quarter century. It will take many years and a ton of money to build that up. In the meanwhile, what should AT&T do _now_, not in indeterminate future?

This seems to be just another attempt by the US to drum of mistrust of other nations in order to keep US citizens fearful, hateful, and naive.

I know its already been a couple of years and millions of distracting stories later but the US government was caught spying on its own people through the use of consumer technology. This to me is worse than China wanting to know our spending habits.

China is the leading producer of consumer goods and America is the leading consumer of those goods. Currently, US companies like Google and facebook are able to collect this data for free and sell it. China is just trying to get in on the action and cut out the middle men.

Crock of crap. I worked for AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, you name it. There's a black box at all central offices that monitor everything anyway so it doesn't matter what device you use. Someone with Nokia, ALU, Samsung, and others are in bed with the major telecom companies. It's just a money problem.

Only an ignorant person (Dems, in general) thinks that the Chinese deserve a high level of trust. China is a communist country. More than one person that I know and goes to China now and then, some of them to buy things for resale, told me that the country is closed compared even to Brazil. People don't have free access to any website as we do (even in Brazil). Things are very very different there. Just spend a little time, pay attention, and you start seeing and noticing. But remember that you rarely have access to what that country is on average, but only the most common regions for foreigners.

If Hillary had won and there were more Dems in the house, I'm not sure this was happening, which would be very unfortunate. And for people who say that they're spied by US agencies, believe me, it's less difficult to fight one of those home agencies and than Chinese ones. People are very misled thinking that Chinese companies have the level of freedom from gov't as Americans do.

First off, you blame the Dem's. Under GW Bush, he created the tax loop holes for the rich. Meaning...American Companies overseas, the CEO's can hide their Corporate and Personal Wealth in Foreign Banks....and pay No Taxes in America. President Trump did not repeal these tax loop-holes. Also Ivanka INC is made in China and CEO Ivanka Trump does not pay taxes in America under the current tax laws.

Behind every President, you have the same Congress.The voter wanted change, enter Trump. But the same voter, voted back-in the same Congress Members into office. Since our Congress is controlled and Paid-off by Lobbyists and Special Interest Groups....any President will have a hard-time getting things done.

Once I read a document argumenting that being a leftist means having some degree of retardation, and comments here prove that. One can't be normal by thinking that the US is as worse as China when it comes to stealing data, and that fighting companies and gov't agencies over spying practices in the US is as hard as it is in China.

I found China beautiful, and the people kind and content. Iae aa eia, as Claus Levi Strauss said, "How a culture is judged all depends on the person doing the judging."

Too bad the US has so many problems, yet feels superior...police brutality, domestic violence against women, greatest incarceration(esp, minorities), mass murders, gun violence, war crimes, declining public education, one of the greatest polluters per capita.

Looks like a nice phone. I'd be willing to pay 200-300 for one. The idea of paying 800 sounds crazy to me. (But then, I'm old enough to want my phone to make calls, receive calls, check my email, and take a decent photo. Cannot imagine paying more for a smartphone than for an very nice mid-level DSLR)

No. Obama barred Sprint from using Huawei backbone equipment was the 1st shot and that was from 2013. Cisco was losing market share. Obama also banned Intel from selling China Xeon processors because America was falling China in super computing.

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